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Market Analysis January 23, 2025

US games market down 1% in 2024 to $58.6 billion, with Call of Duty and sports games dominating year-end charts

Circana has released its annual report on the US video game market. Here are the key findings on consumer spending and best-selling titles.
Events January 23, 2025

WN Conference coming to Abu Dhabi on February 11-12, with talks from Google, Ubisoft, Sandsoft, and more

WN Media Group has announced its new games industry conference. The company will be holding a major event in the United Arab Emirates next month, featuring speakers from Ubisoft, MY.GAMES, Sandsoft Games, Razer, Google, Holodeck Ventures, and more.
Industry News January 23, 2025

Pocketpair launches publishing label to help indie devs fund their games and “pursue their dreams”

Pocketpair is expanding its business by launching a publishing label. The Palworld developer plans to partner with other indie studios to help them fund and distribute their games.
Industry News January 23, 2025

EA shares plunge 11% after lowering outlook on weaker-than-expected results of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA Sports FC 25

Electronic Arts has revised its outlook for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. The company cited lower-than-expected sales of two of its recent releases, EA Sports FC 25 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Market Analysis January 22, 2025

GDC: 33% of AAA devs work on live service games, 80% make projects for PC

GDC has released its annual survey on the state of the games industry. Here are the key takeaways about developers’ perception on layoffs, GenAI, and trending business models.
Industry News January 22, 2025

China approves over 130 games in January, including Honor of Kings World, Star Resonance, and Frostpunk Mobile

China’s National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) has released its first batch of video game licensing in 2025. The list includes several major releases and dozens of smaller titles.
Industry News January 22, 2025

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader tops 1 million copies sold, selling faster than previous Owlcat games

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader has reached a new impressive milestone in just over a year after launch. Owlcat’s latest CRPG has now sold over 1 million copies globally.
Industry News January 22, 2025

Mortal Kombat 1 cements its status as best-selling fighting game franchise, with over 5 million copies sold

NetherRealm Studios has announced a new milestone for Mortal Kombat 1. The game has sold over 5 million units globally since its September 2023 launch.
Industry News January 21, 2025

[UPD] Live service games dominate Steam charts, with no single-player or new releases in top 20

The drought of new major releases continues, so seeing evergreen hits at the top of the Steam charts is not surprising. Here are the highest-grossing titles on the platform over the past seven days.
Industry News January 21, 2025

Balatro sold another 1.5 million units in last month, crossing 5 million in less than year

Balatro is a rare case of a single-player game that continues to steadily grow its audience without major content updates or DLCs. Here’s some new data on LocalThunk’s deck-building roguelike.
Industry News January 20, 2025

Archero 2 generates over $8 million in less than two weeks: how it compares to original game

Habby has launched a sequel to its mobile hit Archero, a game often considered a pioneer of the hybrid-casual model. The new title is already showing impressive results on iOS and Android.
Marketing January 20, 2025

How indie decorating sim Urban Jungle generated 90k wishlists on Steam thanks to fests, demos, and some luck

Kylyk Games is a three-person team currently working on their debut project Urban Jungle. Here’s how they went from launching a Steam page to becoming full-time indie devs.
Industry News January 20, 2025

Dynasty Warriors: Origins peaks at nearly 70k CCU on Steam, Koei Tecmo’s second-biggest launch by that metric

Dynasty Warriors: Origins, the first main installment in the long-running franchise in almost seven years, has been released on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Let’s take a closer look at its early metrics.
Industry News January 17, 2025

Space Marine 2 continues to drive growth for PulluP Entertainment, with its Q3 new game revenue up nearly 8x

PulluP Entertainment has released its financial report for the third quarter ended December 31, 2024. The parent organization of publisher Focus Entertainment continues to see strong revenue growth thanks to the success of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2.
Dev Interviews January 17, 2025

“Succeeding in marketing without AI is increasingly challenging”: Gamelight on disrupting rewarded UA with data-driven approach

Gamelight is a user acquisition platform for mobile developers and publishers. We’ve discussed the company’s data-driven approach, dedicated AI algorithm, rewarded UA/marketing, and more in an exclusive interview with founder Günay Azer.
Industry News January 17, 2025

Sony continues to scale back its live service pipeline by canceling two games from Bend and Bluepoint

PlayStation has started 2025 by canceling two more projects in development at its first-party studios. The company continues to downsize its lineup of live service games.
Events January 17, 2025

WN Connect coming to London on January 21 to bring together local and global games industry professionals

WN Media Group is gearing up for its first event in 2025. WN Connect London’25 will take place next week, with representatives of BoomBit, AppLovin, Gaijin Entertainment, MY.GAMES, AppsFlyer, Hypercell Games among the confirmed participants.
Industry News January 16, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2 announced with backwards compatibility for both digital and physical games

Nintendo has finally unveiled its new console, Nintendo Switch 2. However, the Japanese company will share its release date and other details during special events in the spring.
Industry News January 15, 2025

Games Workshop posts 2.5x increase in licensing revenue thanks to Space Marine 2’s success

Games Workshop has released its financial report for the six-month period ended December 1, 2024. The company has clearly benefited from the successful launch of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2.
Industry News January 15, 2025

Tencent and Guillemot family may spin off some Ubisoft assets into new company as part of reorganization

Talks between Ubisoft’s founding Guillemot family and Chinese tech giant Tencent have gotten a new twist. The parties are reportedly considering establishing a new joint venture.
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